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W^' by no means certain, that the bay to which I have sivcn his 



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< ^ — ' name, is the place where he anchored. Nor do I know, that 



what I called Mount St. Elias, is the fame confpicuous 

 mountain to which he gave that name. And as to his 

 Cape Sc. Elias, I am entirely at a lofs to pronounce where 

 it lies. 



On the North Eaft fide of Cape St. Hermogcnes, the coaft 

 turned toward the North Weft, and appeared to be wholly 

 unconnecTted with the land feen by us the preceding day. In 

 the chart above mentioned, there is here a fpacc, where 

 Beering is fuppofed to have feen no land. This alfo fa- 

 voured the later account publifhed by Mr. St^ehlin, who 

 makes Cape St. Hermogcnes, and all the land that Beering 

 difcovered to the South Weft of it, to be a cluftcr of iflands ; 

 placing St. Hermogcnes amongft thofe which are deftitute 

 of wood. What we now faw, feemed to confirm this ; 

 and every circumflance infpired us with liopes of finding 

 here a paflage Northward, without being obHgcd to proceed 

 any farther to the South Weft. 



We were detained ofF the Cape, by variable light airs and 

 Monday 25. caluis, till two o'clock the next morning, when a breeze 

 fpringing up at North Eaft, we fleered North North Weft 

 along the coaft ; and foon found the land of Cape St. Her- 

 mogcnes to be an iftand, about fix leagues in circuit, fepa- 

 rated from the adjacent coaft by a channel one league 

 broad. A league and a half to the North of this iftand, lie 

 fomc rocks, above water j on the North Eaft fide of which 

 we had from thirty to twenty fathoms water. 



At noon, the iftand of St. Hermogcnes bore South half 

 Eaft, eight leagues diftant ; and the land to the North Weft 

 of it, extended from South half Weft to near Weft. In this 



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